University professor, educational administrator, historian. Knighted in 1947. See DNZB (Vol 3, 1901-1920, p217-218, H23)
Hight, James (Sir), 1870-1958
Correspondence (Has-Hj)
Date: 1920-1932
From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files
Reference: MS-Papers-0181-040
Description: Names of selected correspondents entered in Name Field. Others are: Nancy Haszard, Castlecliff, 1923; Hawaiian Evangelical Society; Hawaiian News & Thrums Ltd; Hawaiian Gazette Ltd; Hawkes Bay Relief Association Inc; Fay Hawdon, Christchurch, 1921; Mrs M Hay, Wellington, 1927 re Dr George S Evans and Golders Hill; Dorothy E Hayes, 1925; A Haylock, 1922; W R A Hays, Ohio, 1931; Patrick D Healy, 1927; Health Week Committee (Wellington City Council), 1922; F Hegel, Denmark, 1927; Miss C Henderson, Sumner, 1922; Alice Henry, Chicago, 1920 (National Women's Trade Union League); John Reginald Herd (lawyer of Herd & Herd, Wellington), 1931; Mrs M Hewson, 1926; Mrs Hibbard, Kopuaranga, 1922; George J Hicks & Co (Wellington), 1926; Rev Jas Hickson, Wanganui, 1924; Karl W Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1931; NZ High Commissioner, New Zealand Government Offices, London re Edward Wakefield and his Memoir of Sir Edward William Stafford; Department of Overseas Trade, London; Annette Helene Hill, New Jersey, 1926; Historical Society of Victoria; Ivan Hjorring, 1923. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Society for Imperial Culture (Christchurch Branch)
Date: Between 1921 and 1935
From: Broadcasting History Trust : Photographs relating to James Shelley
Reference: PAColl-4919-1-02
Description: A meeting of the Society for Imperial Culture (Christchurch Branch). Mabel Shelley is seated third from left. Rosa Sawtell and James Hight are seated in the centre of the front row. James Shelley is seated in the second row, between the two women at the right and of the front row. Photograph taken between 1921 and 1935 by Thomson of Christchurch. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - JS and Mary at Hove Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 116 x 171 mm
Credentials (a)
Date: [1930-1982]
From: Perry, Charles Stuart, 1908-1982 : Further papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8211-09
Description: Correspondence, personal references etc relating to Perry's education and career; certificates, small family tree for Sir James Wilson and the Adams family, educational certificates etc. Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Garrett-Innes
Date: [1940-1976]
From: Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0418-039
Description: Includes letter to Lieut-Cmdr Glanville re liquor on HMNZS `Pegasus' (1954); joke police report from F Glass re Glover; letters from Granvilles in England; letter from Auntie Tat; poems by Brian Gregory; circular letter from Rita Harris from Ibadan, Nigeria; Save Open Country publicity. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
[Ephemera of quarto size promoting the publication of books and new book titles. 1950-1...
Date: 1950-1959
From: [Ephemera of quarto size promoting the publication of books and new book titles]
Reference: Eph-B-BOOK-1950s
Description: Includes promotional material for: 1950: Beltane Book Bureau. New Zealand art - Maori art; a special Beltane list. Flier / order form Dumont D'Urville. New Zealand 1826-1827. Ready August 1950 1953: A H Reed. The story of the kauri. 1953 1957: Cranwell Publishing Company Limited. 'Farms & stations of New Zealand'. Progress report, April 1957. Flier 'A history of Canterbury', vol. 1: To 1854 general editors Sir James Hight ... [and] C R Straubel. Flier / order form 1959: 'Anthropology in the South Seas'; essays presented to H D Skinner. Edited by J D Freeman and W R Geddes. Prospectus [1959] Joan & Russell Reid Ltd. 'Prompt book; a New Zealand theatre guide'. Second edition [1959]. Flier / order form Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 330 mm.
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd :Messrs Whitcombe & Tombs Limited take pleasure in announcing a m...
Date: 1909 - 1910
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1900-1919]
By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1910-03
Description: Promotional booklet announcing the publication of James Cowan's book reproduces its title page, author's preface, editor's note (by James Hight), list of contents, and three specimen pages. It contains photographs of racing canoes on the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia, portraits of Patara Te Tuhi, Araki Te Pohu, Patu a wife of Ruatapu the Urewera prophet, and a group photograph of Ruatapu and his family. The back page includes an order form which could be mailed to Whitcombe & Tombs Limited at 2 Addle Hill, Carter Lane, London. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Mr K A Webster
Further papers
Date: [1926-1935]
From: Harrop, Angus John 1900-1963 : Further papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5704-2
Description: Comprises letters from Sir James Hight to Harrop and his wife (1926-1948); possible article by Harrop, `What's the matter with college?' from `College House magazine' (nd); article by Arthur Jose, `Charlemagne in Maori-land' from `Cornhill Magazine' (Jul 1929); clippings, and article by Hight from ANZAAS meeting, `Some observations on the use of history' (1935), and issue of `Canta' 11 May 1933 Other Titles - Canta (official organ of Students Association of Canterbury University College) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974 :[Photographs of portraits and studies. ca 1900-1960].
Date: 1900 - 1960
By: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Wishart, Betty Sylvia, 1909-1990
Reference: A-284-002
Description: Includes material relating to 5 portraits painted by the artist: Dr Hight, Sir James Hector, Professor Shelley, Trelawny of the Wells, a nude possibly after R. McD. ("The awakening"). ATL has file prints of the original oils of Shelley and Hector, and a colour transparency of the portrait of Hector. The originals of both portraits are in Te Papa. The portrait of Sir James Hector was copied from a photograph, a studio portrait printed in Vancouver in 1903. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - L.H. BOOTH Quantity: 17 photograph(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographs, black and white, from 120 x 94 mm, to 152 x 286 mm.
Correspondence
Date: 1923
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-166
Description: Inward letters from a number of sources and outward letters (to Clara Eichelbaum) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Alphabetical correspondence - Heaney-Reeves-Hill
Date: 1932-1957
From: Field, Arthur Nelson, 1882-1963 : Papers
Reference: 73-148-070
Description: Correspondents include: J Heaney-Reeves (Capt) of London, 1946; W F Heffernan of NSW, 1937; Mr Heighway, 1932; C Stuart Hemingway of New York, 1933; Michael J Henry of Queensland, 1936-1939; P R Herman of The Australian Free-Economy League, 1937; J E Herrman of Oakland, California, 1933; Dirk Hertzog of Afrikaans-Nasionale Studentebond, Pretoria, South Africa, 1934; E Trevor Hill of Devonport, Auckland, 1933. Names of other correspondents entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letters from Charles Brasch
Date: 1954-1972
From: Milner, Ian Frank George, 1911-1991 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4599
Description: Outward letters from Charles Brasch to Ian Milner in Prague, (1954-1972) mostly concerning reviews and other work Milner did for `Landfall' (of which Brasch was founder-editor), the literary and artistic scene in NZ and Australia, and Brasch's two visits to Europe over the period of the correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s) 85 leaves. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts
Photographs relating to James Hight and James Shelley
From: Broadcasting History Trust : Photographs relating to James Shelley
Reference: PA12-1945
Description: Photograph relating to James Hight and James Shelley. Quantity: 2 colour original transparency/ies (120 strips with 3 images). Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Photographs relating to James Hight
From: Broadcasting History Trust : Photographs relating to James Shelley
Reference: PA12-1944
Description: Photograph relating to James Hight Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies (120 strips with 7 images). Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Correspondence re Bickerton
Date: 1953-1961
From: Burdon, Randal Matthews, 1896-1965 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0275-23
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Correspondence
Date: 1936-1958
From: Mulgan, Alan Edward, 1881-1962 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0224-04
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Correspondence and newspaper cuttings
Date: 1931-1938
From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers
Reference: 77-248-12/3
Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Photographs of personalities, Canterbury Little Theatre, and actors in the Centennial film
Date: 1930s
From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints
Reference: PAColl-6180-05
Description: The largest group of photographs are of Canterbury university teachers, Rhodes scholars and nominees for Rhodes scholarships ca 1935, a headmaster of St Andrews College, Christchurch, and a Christchurch musician. There is also a group of photographs of actors and plays produced by the Christchurch Little Theatre, and three prints of actors taken during the making of the film for the New Zealand Centennial, 1940. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).
Inward correspondence, reviews and other papers
Date: [1925-1973]
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers
Reference: 77-067-3/1
Description: Persons entered under Name; many of the files include letters about the subject from other people Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A J Harrop - Inwards correspondence
Date: 1917, 1928, 1930-1931, 1934, 1936-1941, 1949, 1954, 1961, 2008
From: Thwaite, Ann, 1932- : Papers relating to the Harrop and Valentine families
Reference: MS-Papers-10818-39
Description: Folder contains letters relating to A J Harrop's education, career, and historical writing Names selectively indexed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts
Society for Imperial Culture (Christchurch Branch)
Date: Between 1921 and 1935
From: Broadcasting History Trust : Photographs relating to James Shelley
Reference: 1/4-072088-F
Description: A meeting of the Society for Imperial Culture (Christchurch Branch). Mabel Shelley is seated third from left. Rosa Sawtell and James Hight are seated in the centre of the front row. James Shelley is seated in the second row, between the two women at the right and of the front row. Photograph taken between 1921 and 1935 by Thomson of Christchurch. An original print from this negative is at PAColl-4919-1-02 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative